Pervasive Mist from Dementors Breeding

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 137838

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Meliss9900 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 8/14/2005 11:22:59 AM Central Standard Time, 
> 5682574 at s... writes:
> How do dementors breed? I don't believe we have been told in 
canon, 
> have we? I had it in my head that they sucked the soul out of
> someone, and that created a new dementor, but now I think that's 
from 
> fan fiction.
> 
> 
> Melissa:
> 
> Around the timeof  GOF's release JKR was asked how dementor's 
breed, this was 
> the answer in this interview "Harry Potter author fields questions 
from 
> junior journalists in Vancouver," Canadian Press, October 25, 2000
> 
> 
> One young Canadian boy earlier asked her how Dementers breed. 
> "I was just so pleased that he thought about it and pleased that I 
had the 
> answer," Rowling told The Canadian Press. 
> These evil creatures don't, by the way, breed but grow like a 
fungus where 
> there is decay. 
> Melissa. 
> 
> 

a_svirn:

How do they breed? How about this: 

But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,
As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea
*Contagious fogs* [emphasis mine – a_svirn]; which falling in the 
land
Have every pelting river made so proud
That they have overborne their continents:

<snip>

That rheumatic diseases do abound:
And thorough this distemperature we see
The seasons alter: <snip>

                       the spring, the summer,
The childing autumn, angry winter, change
Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
By their *increase*, now knows not which is which:
*And this same progeny of evils comes
>From our debate, from our dissension;
We are their parents and original*[emphasis mine – a_svirn] .